Passage à l’infini [Passage to the infinite]: two diptychs inspired by L’Art de rêver [The art of dreaming] by Carlos Castañeda. But not necessarily of the work itself, rather by their author’s approach. He used words, Marjorie Brunet, photos. Because as she says, photography is after all just a medium. And hers, moreover, is extremely close to painting, particularly the classical: the work with light, the taste for chiaroscuro, the feeling for detail, the importance of the composition. What begins here as a diptych, a sort of face to face with oneself, built around notions implying not only a passing from one to the other but also an interdependence: life/death, consciousness/unconsciousness, outside/inside. « A journey inwards unfinished, of course » its author says. Yet all the same, a few elements, beginning with that in which the models are plunged: water. Inspired by the work of Michel Redolfi and that of the video artist, Bill Viola [which was a true trigger for her] around this element, she develops as this passage, the revealer where the models show something which does not belong to them [no longer?]. And if the surface of the water – the frontier? – is still visible, the verticality of the portraits refers here to spirituality, to the question of the soul; or further hides the reasons possible. Until it renders this passage to the infinite impossible? For you to decide…

French and Venezuelan artist born in 1985, Paris. Lives and works in Paris and Berlin.